For super-clever tech: Ecotones Sound + Sleep Machine ($100; amazon.com) The priciest of our picks, the Sound + Sleep offers a good deal of versatility. It can actually detect other noises in your environment (say, the neighbor’s howling dog, or a snorer down the hall) and adjust to mask them. The gadget also has a… Read More »
Romantic kissing happens in over 90% of all cultures, and with good reason: “It helps us find a partner and stay with them,” says Laura Berman, PhD, assistant clinical professor of ob-gyn and psychiatry at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago and author of Loving Sex ($25, amazon.com). But it also has… Read More »
Nobody wants to get the flu this year. The dreaded, head-pounding, body-aching, feverish, nauseating, cough-fest packs equal parts misery and inconvenience. But nobody wants to get a shot that might be unnecessary or ineffective, either. So, while some experts worry aloud about a 1918-like flu pandemic, most of uswell aware of the risks of getting… Read More »
This article originally appeared on Time.com If you’ve ever been tempted to confront someone slurping their soup in a restaurant, or if a person breathing loudly next to you in the movie theater is enough to make your blood boil, then you’re not alone: You’re one of many people suffering from a genuine brain abnormality… Read More »
FRIDAY, Oct. 23, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Reports of deaths and illnesses occurring soon after use are prompting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to issue warnings on two drugs used to fight the hepatitis C virus. The drugs, called Viekira Pak and Technivie, appeared linked to serious liver damage in patients with advanced… Read More »
Photo: Getty Images WEDNESDAY, May 4, 2016 (HealthDay News) — The number of hepatitis C-linked deaths in the United States reached a record high in 2014, and the virus now kills more Americans than any other infectious disease, health officials report. There were 19,659 hepatitis C-related deaths in 2014, according to preliminary data from U.S. Centers… Read More »
Early last week, news broke that the Trump administration had issued an information blackout for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The agency was directed to stop issuing press releases, posting to their social media pages, and speaking to members of the press or directly to the public. The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday that EPA… Read More »
Women can now get birth control delivered to their homes as easily as they can order take-out—finally. The new app Nurx makes it incredibly convenient for women over 18 to access the patch, ring, or pill—even Plan B—privately and quickly. Although the service is only available in California and New York right now, the company plans to expand to other… Read More »
A photo posted by Zendaya (@zendaya) on Oct 20, 2015 at 7:49pm PDT Nineteen-year-old actress and singer Zendaya took a powerful stand Tuesday night after a magazine severely re-touched images of her. After seeing the outcome of a recent photo shoot for L.A.-based fashion magazine Modeliste, she was totally taken aback: “Had a new shoot come… Read More »
The number of obese people around the world has increased dramatically in the past 40 years, and now tops the number of people who are underweight, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal The Lancet, looked at global, regional and national body mass index patterns among adults from 1975 to 2014,… Read More »